Decidedly Mediocre - Only Lasted a Year
Pros
Location, transit access, neighbors, nearby businesses, price (compared to wburg as a whole)
Cons
Street-facing bedrooms are INSANELY NOISY all night due to proximity to BQE ramp. Woken up at 4am by a symphony of tractor-trailers several times a month. No laundry in building (although laundromat across the street is great) Management tried to keep my security deposit because "I didn't give sufficient notice that I wouldn't be renewing the lease" despite the fact that the lease had a clear end date and I gave no indication I wanted to re-sign. They eventually repaid me. To that end--faceless corporate property management, no idea who I'm interacting with when submitting maintenance requests or negotiating lease terms. Bad communication, felt like yelling into a void. Now paying less for more space in a cooler area with same L train access and a local landlord who I speak with often in Bushwick and am much happier.
Advice to the owners
Be more communicative, soundproof street facing windows better, stop trying to steal peoples' security deposits over technicalities.
Not meant for long term leasing
Pros
- Rent stabilized - Great location - Modern unit / appliances
Cons
- Flex bedrooms (not true units) - you can hear neighbors and literally everything they do - Rats in the apartment (even all the way up the 4th floor) - I blame new tenants in the building who doesn’t throw the garbage properly that’s why are rats have gotten so much more than when I first moved in - Packages get stolen. Again I blame noise and bad garbage disposal and stolen packages to the new tenants this summer. Never had problems before this summer. High turnover rate in this building. I never see the same people except for a couple units. It’s definitely not worth the price for the sizes of these units that aren’t even true bedrooms.
